Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A light barouche.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

barouche +‎ -ette

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word barouchette.

Examples

  • But it got beyond Miss Austen when, at the end of some three miles, before a sort of carrier's inn, the gentleman of the barouchette stept into the middle of the road, making a sort of military signal to my driver, which he repeated with impatience when the man did not at once draw up!

    Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

  • I went into the lobby to tell the landlady, some five or eight minutes after the coach had started, and told her, in presence of a gentleman, who was preparing to start in a barouchette with two horses.

    Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.